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Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By : Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei
Book Image

Apache Spark 2: Data Processing and Real-Time Analytics

By: Romeo Kienzler, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla, Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen Mei

Overview of this book

Apache Spark is an in-memory, cluster-based data processing system that provides a wide range of functionalities such as big data processing, analytics, machine learning, and more. With this Learning Path, you can take your knowledge of Apache Spark to the next level by learning how to expand Spark's functionality and building your own data flow and machine learning programs on this platform. You will work with the different modules in Apache Spark, such as interactive querying with Spark SQL, using DataFrames and datasets, implementing streaming analytics with Spark Streaming, and applying machine learning and deep learning techniques on Spark using MLlib and various external tools. By the end of this elaborately designed Learning Path, you will have all the knowledge you need to master Apache Spark, and build your own big data processing and analytics pipeline quickly and without any hassle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Mastering Apache Spark 2.x by Romeo Kienzler • Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics by Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla • Apache Spark 2.x Machine Learning Cookbook by Siamak Amirghodsi, Meenakshi Rajendran, Broderick Hall, Shuen MeiCookbook
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Exploring the movies data details for the recommendation system in Spark 2.0


In this recipe, we will begin to explore the movie data file by parsing data into a Scala case class and generating a simple metric. The key here is to acquire an understanding of our data, so in the later stages, if nebulous results arise, we will have some insight to make an informed conclusion about the correctness of our results.

This is the first of the two recipes which explore the movie dataset. Data exploration is an important first step in statistical analysis and machine learning.

One of the best ways to understand the data quickly is to generate a data visualization of it, and we will use JFreeChart to do that. It is very important to make sure you feel comfortable with the data and understand firsthand what is in each file, and the story it tries to tell.

We must always explore, understand, and visualize the data before we do anything else. Most performances and misses with ML and others systems can be...